Which ISP

"MurphAssoc" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

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do you use, especially if you have been a long time reader of this

newsgroup,

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please. AOL is planning to discontinue access and earthlink does not seem

to

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grant it either.
TIA,
JM

news.individual.net

My son accesses newsgroups via Earthlink, and has been for years. Are they
planning on discontinuing this service?

"MurphAssoc" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

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do you use, especially if you have been a long time reader of this
newsgroup,
please. AOL is planning to discontinue access and earthlink does not seem
to
grant it either.
TIA,
JM

On 27 Jan 2005 14:02:12 GMT, [email hidden] (MurphAssoc)
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do you use, especially if you have been a long time reader of this newsgroup,
please. AOL is planning to discontinue access and earthlink does not seem to
grant it either.
TIA,
JM

Doubt that Earthlink would drop it. My guess that AOL is
dropping it to conserve money due to their dwindling
customer base and also due to their recent legal troubles
IIRC. I know Time Warner regrets getting AOL.

Last I recall:

news.west.earthlink.net (West of the Mississippi?)
news.east.earthlink.net (East of the Mississippi?)

Yep. http://news.earthlink.net/

Two servers are available for Newsgroups usage:
news.west.earthlink.net and news.east.earthlink.net. For
best performance, if you live west of the Mississippi River,
you should use news.west.earthlink.net. If you live east of
the Misissippi River, you should use
news.east.earthlink.net. If you are unsure, you should use
news.east.earthlink.net. Both servers will have the same
functionality, capability, list of newsgroups, and articles.

http://news.earthlink.net/earthlink-newsgroups.html

© Copyright 2002 EarthLink, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

I used to have an account with them. It may be that they
are upgrading their servers. Then again the page above was
updated a couple years ago.

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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:13:45 -0600, "Hairy"
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"MurphAssoc" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

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do you use, especially if you have been a long time reader of this

newsgroup,

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please. AOL is planning to discontinue access and earthlink does not seem

to

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grant it either.
TIA,
JM

news.individual.net

You'll have to request permission first, unless things have
changed.

http://news.individual.net

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http://www.teranews.com/

"MurphAssoc" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

do you use, especially if you have been a long time reader of this
newsgroup,
please. AOL is planning to discontinue access and earthlink does not seem
to
grant it either.
TIA,
JM

(MurphAssoc) said:

do you use, especially if you have been a long time reader of this newsgroup,
please. AOL is planning to discontinue access and earthlink does not seem to
grant it either.

I used ATT Worldnet for several years, and would still be using it if they
offered their service out here in the boonies.
http://www.consumer.att.com/

Carol
--
"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:19:35 -0600, Damsel <[email hidden]>

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(MurphAssoc) said:

do you use, especially if you have been a long time reader of this

newsgroup,

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

please. AOL is planning to discontinue access and earthlink does

not seem to

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

grant it either.

I used ATT Worldnet for several years, and would still be using it if

they

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offered their service out here in the boonies.
http://www.consumer.att.com/

Carol

Verizon.net works well for us and we use the paid AGENT for the usenet
newsgroups-29000 of them🙂
aloha,
Thunder

smithfarms.com
Farmers of 100% Kona Coffee
& other Great Stuff

(MurphAssoc) said:

do you use, especially if you have been a long time reader of this newsgroup,
please. AOL is planning to discontinue access and earthlink does not seem to
grant it either.

I have service through Sovernet (www.sover.net). 🙂

--
Siobhan Perricone
Humans wrote the bible,
God wrote the rocks
-- Word of God by Kathy Mar

Andrew H. Carter said:

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:13:45 -0600, "Hairy"
<[email hidden]> scribbled some thoughts:

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"MurphAssoc" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

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do you use, especially if you have been a long time reader of this
newsgroup, please. AOL is planning to discontinue access and
earthlink does not seem to grant it either.
TIA,
JM

news.individual.net

You'll have to request permission first, unless things have
changed.

http://news.individual.net

Also (IIRC) they don't access binary ng's so if that is your thing, look
elsewhere. No other suggestions from me; I use my local phone company to
connect using DSL and am perfectly happy with it.

Jill

Wandering along the edges of rec.food.cooking, I found the following bit
of electronic flotsam written by Siobhan Perricone <[email hidden]>
in news:[email hidden]:

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(MurphAssoc) said:

do you use, especially if you have been a long time reader of this
newsgroup, please. AOL is planning to discontinue access and
earthlink does not seem to grant it either.

I have service through Sovernet (www.sover.net). 🙂

I use Astraweb (http://www.astraweb.com).
I utilize the pay-as-you-go plan of purchasing download blocks.

Doug Kanter said:

My son accesses newsgroups via Earthlink, and has been for years. Are they
planning on discontinuing this service?

Nope.

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Best
Greg

On 27 Jan 2005 14:02:12 GMT, [email hidden] (MurphAssoc)

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do you use, especially if you have been a long time reader of this newsgroup,
please. AOL is planning to discontinue access and earthlink does not seem to
grant it either.
TIA,

Earthlink doesn't have usenet servers anymore? Since when?
The last time I checked, EL had 2 usenet servers with a 5GB
limit per 30 days. Google: EarthLink Newsgroups FAQ

Comcast has ditched their in house usenet server in favor of
Giganews... but it's still free, if you aren't a "big" user
and stay within whatever their 30 day limit is - which is
probably 5GB.

sf